RANDY JOHNSON Carnal Madness 1974 WILD SYNTH GLAM PSYCH PUNK SEXINESS 45 LISTEN
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RANDY JOHNSON "Carnal Madness" b/w "Passions Day"
Original 1974 45 on the US HOLOGRAPH label
Vinyl plays VG+ to VG++
Porn glam, now there’s a genre for ya. Consider this one your first entry. Hard to believe this is the same Randy Johnson who gave us the gorgeous 1970 Left Banke soundalike The Gift Of Randy Johnson, but it is. Of course, the path from baroque pop to softcore porn shouldn’t be all that hard when your name’s Randy Johnson. Both sides of this freakishly demented synthesizer glam single stem from the 1975 movie Carnal Madness, better known in this country as Delinquent School Girls. The title theme is a great trippy outer space exotica with phlanged distorted bachelor pad keys, a funky synth bass and big twinkly 10CC bridges. It’s like Joe Meek if he were a member of Sweet. Flipside “Passions Day” is a darker animal indeed, with an apocalyptic feel and big final countdown that ticks down the beat, and weirdo distorted vocals singing about “feeling the flames down below,” which is either about Hell or VD, and maybe both. Even weirder, the song suddenly breaks into a 70’s style Mannix cop chase theme at around the minute and a half mark. The music is classic mid-70’s porn ‘stache glam, a brilliant mash-up of epic keyboards and money shots…pomp and circumstance and seedy 42nd Street strip booths, Deep Purple Throat, Debbie Harry Does Dallas. But the sleeve – man, you couldn’t find something more 70’s if you searched Lee Majors’ bedroom. There’s Randy, proto-Dire Straits guitar in hand, amid a chorus line of escorts and band members so made-up you can’t tell who’s who, and it doesn’t even matter because they’re all covered in a weed smoke miasma so thick I’m amazed the photographer didn’t demand a re-shoot immediately. The bedazzled title font is just icing on the cake. I don’t know about you, but I feel greasy just handling this thing, and you will too. Or at least you can now proudly say, “Hey, I’ve got a Randy Johnson!”
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